Smart spaces technology

Managing environments with smart spaces technology

Businesses everywhere are leveraging smart spaces technology to make environments safer and more comfortable, efficient and enjoyable places to be. Smart spaces rely on data and technology to gain greater visibility into systems, automate processes, mitigate risk and threats, and operate more efficiently and cost-effectively.

In today’s environments, smart spaces technology helps businesses save money by automatically controlling lighting and heating to minimize costs and reduce carbon footprint. Monitoring systems issue early warnings of infrastructure that needs attention, reducing costly repairs and inconvenience. Surveillance systems spot unusual behavior and dangerous situations to improve safety and protect people. And IoT devices collect massive amounts of data to help managers make smarter decisions that improve the overall quality of user experiences.

While technology may differ from one space to the next, all smart spaces technology began with fast, reliable, ubiquitous connectivity throughout an environment. That’s where Spectrum Enterprise can help. Combining a private fiber network with robust solutions for networking and communications, Spectrum Enterprise serves as an invaluable partner to businesses implementing smart solutions.
 

How smart spaces technology works across industries

Smart spaces technology is transforming environments across many industries.

Manufacturing

Manufacturers use smart spaces technology to help manage inventory levels, track assets and monitor contractors and employees. Sensors and cameras help optimize energy usage and enable predictive maintenance. Environmental sensors provide real-time visibility into temperature, humidity, leaks and intrusions that may impact production.

Financial

Financial institutions rely on smart spaces technology like cameras and sensors to track the impact of foot traffic and branches, and to monitor security and prevent theft and robberies. Sensors that monitor power and cooling enable more efficient use of utilities and help institutions react quickly when environmental conditions threaten equipment performance.

Healthcare

Smart spaces technology helps hospitals and medical practices to track traffic through sensitive areas and monitor equipment to reduce unplanned downtime caused by equipment failure. Smart monitoring and automation help reduce the cost of lighting and climate control, and ubiquitous WiFi enables medical professionals to stay connected no matter where their services are needed.

Government

Government agencies use smart technology to prevent unauthorized access to restricted areas and monitor temperature environmental changes in data centers and cold storage environments. Smart technology also helps agencies to reduce energy consumption through monitoring and automation, and to provide better experiences for citizens and visitors by monitoring traffic throughout government spaces.

Education

Colleges and universities use smart campus technology to optimize energy usage and monitor campus security. Smart campus solutions also provide ubiquitous WiFi throughout campus and monitor usage to ensure that compute intensive-applications like esports technology have the bandwidth they need to deliver high performance.

Spectrum Enterprise’s smart spaces technology

Spectrum Enterprise offers a single solution that delivers the connectivity, communications and network management required to implement smart spaces technology.

Managed Network Edge is an all-in-one, modular networking solution can power smart spaces technology to minimize business disruption, maximize resources, reduce unnecessary costs and improve experiences of employees and customers. Delivered over the Cisco Meraki platform, Managed Network Edge makes it easy to connect and configure modern services for networking, security, remote access and more.

With Spectrum Enterprise Managed Network Edge, services for smart spaces technology include:

• Security and routing. Ensure high performance with up-to-date firewall, unified threat management (U TM) and application-aware routing that resolves typical routing issues efficiently.
• WiFi. Rely on next-generation WiFi that connects employees and visitors with greater speed, reliability and performance.
• Switching. Prioritize traffic on the datalink and network layers with cloud-managed, enterprise-grade switching.
• SD-WAN. Seamlessly and automatically connect multiple locations and take advantage of SD-WAN benefits to improve security, simplify management, and reduce the cost of WAN connectivity.
• Remote access. Give mobile workers secure access to the network from any device, at any time.
• Virtual edge. Provide seamless access to cloud-based, business-critical applications by ensuring secure connections to cloud service providers.
• Teleworker. Enable remote and at-home workers to access the same level of network performance, security and data prioritization as in-office employees.
• Environmental sensors. Monitor and alert teams to environmental changes in temperature, air quality, humidity, and water leaks.
• Smart cameras. Protect locations, monitor infrastructure and gain insight into customer behavior.

In addition to Managed Network Edge, Spectrum Enterprise provides comprehensive managed networking services, unified communications and collaboration technology, enterprise TV solutions, and technology for managing enterprise hybrid cloud deployments.
 

Benefits of managing smart spaces with Spectrum Enterprise

Much more than a monitoring solution, Manage Network Edge maximizes business value within workspaces and delivers remarkable benefits.

• Gain insights drawn from end-to-end visibility into physical and digital environments.
• Deliver exceptional connectivity that keeps everyone and everything working together.
• Protect your people, data and organization with security for every layer of your network.
• Achieve sustainability by conserving resources through real-time environmental monitoring.
• Increase efficiency with automation that is seamless, scalable, and easy to use across multiple locations.
• Free up resources with partially or fully managed solutions.
• Simplify administration by managing the entire network from a centralized, intuitive and easy-to-use portal.
• Reduce expenses with consolidated and optimized networking components, with billing under one monthly charge.
   

Why Spectrum Enterprise?

Organizations in many industries rely on Spectrum Enterprise to deliver the solutions and services that enable smart spaces technology. We offer:

• A custom approach. Our solutions are designed around the needs of your business. From connectivity to networking technology and TV and voice solutions, our technical experts and strategists help design and implement solutions that meet unique objectives and requirements.
• Greater reliability. Our solutions come with enterprise-grade service-level agreements to maximize availability and minimize service interruptions.
• Continuous support. With Spectrum Enterprise, you’ll always have a team of dedicated experts in your corner, delivering unmatched commitment and hands-on local support.
   

FAQs

What are smart spaces?

A smart space is an environment or facility that uses data and technology to automate systems, enhance visibility, increase efficiency, and make everyday tasks easier.
 

What is smart space technology?

Smart spaces technology may include automated lights and climate control, surveillance systems, digital signage, ubiquitous connectivity, and sensors that collect information that leads to better experiences for users and visitors in the space.